2025 JAMB UTME: Nigerians lament students' poor performance

Olamide Aderibigbe, 16-year-old maths wizard, scores 336 overall in UTME

Olamide Aderibigbe, a 16-year-old student of Starville International School in Jabi, Abuja, displayed his mathematical prowess by scoring 98 in the oft-feared subject during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). At the same time, Aderibigbe scored 86 in Physics, 68 in English, and 84 in Economics, for a total of 336 UTME scores. “He hopes to study Architecture at Covenant University or the University of Ibadan,” Olamide's f…

2025 JAMB UTME: Nigerians lament students' poor performance

Nigerians have continued to lament the poor performance of students in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This comes after JAMB on Friday released its 2025 UTME results. Reacting, some Nigerians took to their social media accounts to lament the candidates’ performance. An X user, known as Oluwaseun, decried the poor performance by students. Oluwaseun shared a screenshot of a JAMB candidate’s result who scored 132 this ye…

Poor JAMB Scores In South East: Don Asks JAMB To Review Algorithm – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

AWKA – As many parents in the South East and particularly Anambra State groan over poor scores of their children and wards in the 2025 Joint Admissions and Matriculation examination, the former Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University and Chairman School Management Board of Dennis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS) Onitsha, Professor Ilochi Okafor (SAN) has […]

2025 UTME: Did over 70% candidates truly fail, or was there a systemic manipulation?

The release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on May 9, 2025, has unleashed a firestorm of controversy across Nigeria. The results show a staggering 78.5% of the 1,955,069 candidates (over 1.5 million) scoring below 200 out of a possible 400. So, there are accusations that they do not reflect candidates’ true abilities. Social media platforms, particularly…

THEWILL EDITORIAL: 2025 UTME As Wake-Up Call

May 11, (THEWILL) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, last week released the statistical breakdown of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The result showed a disappointing performance that revealed a deep rot in the educational system at the secondary level. But first, the haunting statistics. According to the board, analysis of candidates’ performance records showed that over

JAMB candidate scores 155 after studying 25 past questions, father calls out the board

GistReel A Nigerian JAMB candidate has taken to social media to express her disappointment after scoring 155 in the UTME, despite months of dedicated preparation with past questions and strong performance in mock exams. The post, which surfaced on X (formerly Twitter), features the candidate voicing her frustration over the unexpected result. JAMB candidate scores 155 after studying 25 past questions. She stated that she sat for JAMB the previou…